This return, 3M candidly confesses, is 1.5 percentage points above its own projections of market indexes for pension industry performance.
What is more, it is hard to know how hedge funds actually fare, since indices that track industry performance tend to overstate the returns.
"While demonstrating superior industry performance and operational efficiency, the New Sustainability Champions innovate to overcome the real constraints that they face, " said Knut Haanaes, a BCG partner.
As he shows repeatedly in the book, both fund and industry performance suffers with growth in size (he calculates the correlation between hedge fund size and performance as -0.42).
To test his thesis, Lack deconstructed industry performance data.
And as everywhere else in the semiconductor industry, performance doubles and redoubles, and prices keep falling.
For whatever reason, the best companies in these countries have superior disclosure, better performance against same industry peers, and better performance improvement over time.
He points to the strong inverse correlation between capital spending in the industry and share performance.
Home Star legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate may give the home-performance industry a big shot in the arm.
He has written a provocative book questioning a central tenet of the hedge-fund industry: its performance is always worth paying for.
Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
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Notably, the line features the introduction of several industry-leading performance features, including the world's first Audyssey DSX with front height or expanded width channels in the receiver category (AVR-4310CI) and Dolby Pro Logic IIz decoding in all models.
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It further expands GE's solutions portfolio for unconventional resources, consisting of more than 40 technologies that are addressing fundamental industry challenges, helping customers and the industry improve operational performance, reduce their environmental footprint and increase resource recovery while creating innovative technologies to drive demand for natural gas.
"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.
The figure represents the industry's best performance since IATA began collecting crash records in the 1940s.
The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index rose to 45.6 in February from 40.2 in January.
Pension-fund managers and most mutual-fund managers are evaluated by their employers and industry consultants on relative performance.
The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index rose to a reading of 45.6 in February, from 40.2 in January.
Designed and tested over months of research by the industry's most performance focused engineering team, the Sub-Zero Liquid Chilled System is specifically designed for enthusiasts and hardcore gamers who are driven by the pursuit of more performance and power.
"Whether working on shots in a large studio, boutique or as an independent artist, there has long been a performance gap that limits how well even the most cutting edge applications can perform in professional workstations, " said Vincent Brisebois, Fusion-io Performance Computing Industry Senior Director.
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Villa responded to losing 7-1 to the Premier League leaders a fortnight earlier with a performance of industry and desire and their manager Martin O'Neill will also believe his side should have had a first-half penalty when Jon Mikel Obi clumsily felled Gabriel Agbonlahor inside the area.
First, there is movement towards increased opacity of industry trends and sources of performance.
Currently, over 20% of sales come from ecommerce channels, a top tier performance in the industry.
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The good news is that well-regulated countries have done something about the industry's poor environmental performance.
Both displays come standard with a 3-year limited warranty, and the industry's best pixel performance policy.
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Its EBITDAR margin is 10.8%, which is just 16th percentile performance in an industry where the median is 18.8%.
Why, given the abysmal performance of the industry as a whole, do investors continue to come back for more punishment?
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In these discussions, companies would do well to stay out of the technical weeds of next year's performance metrics or industry-specific business strategies.
We ranked candidate companies for financial performance against their industry peers in one of 26 industry groups over the latest five years and most recent 12 months.
Michael Lipper, of Lipper Analytical Services, a fund-tracking firm, has made a small fortune from the industry's obsession with performance comparisons, but has found that time and again fund managers who were losers one year become winners the next, and vice versa.
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